Law changes for prostitution and lap-dancing
Men seeking paid-for sex on the street will soon risk being arrested on their first offence due to tough new measures to tackle prostitution. And local communities will have greater powers to challenge the number of lap-dancing clubs in their area. Both pieces of legislation will come into force in England, Wales and Northern Ireland via the Policing and Crime Act next month. What impact will the changes have on women sex workers? How effective will the law be at helping women to leave the sex industry? And do these measures go far enough? Jenni is joined by Cari Mitchell from the English Collective of Prostitutes, and Anna Van Heeswijk from Object.
The real Room of One's Own
For the last eight years Sarah Hosking has provided aspiring female writers over 40 with a place to think, get away from it all, and write award-winning books. But currently not enough good candidates are applying to make use of the cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon. Jenni meets Sarah, founder of the Hosking Houses Trust, to ask her what she wants from her writers-in-residence, and what writers gain from the experience. She is also joined by Louise Foxcroft, who completed 'Hot Flushes, Cold Science - a History of the Modern Menopause' whilst staying at the retreat.
'Moral policing' in Mangalore
A year ago a global protest known as the Pink Pants, or Pink Chaddi, campaign was launched following attacks on women in a bar in the southern Indian town of Mangalore. A mob of around 40 men hit, kicked and abused the women in the pub because they said the girls were going against Indian culture. A hindu group known as the army of Ram or Shri Ram Sene said they carried out the attack. The BBC?s Assignment team has just been to Mangalore, and found that the campaign has had little effect. A new kind of moral policing is taking place in which young couples - especially Muslim boys seen out with Hindu girls - are now the target. Tinku Ray reports from Mangalore.
Naomie Harris
The actor Naomie Harris has a lead role in the new BBC thriller 'Blood and Oil', set in the Niger Delta, a beautiful but highly dangerous region of Nigeria. She plays a PR woman who is flown out to help smooth over a kidnapping in the oil industry. But things don?t go to plan. Naomie joins Jenni to talk about her varied career, how she coped with being bullied as a child, and her long-term ambition to play Jane Austen?s Elizabeth Bennet.Blood and Oil will be shown in two parts on BBC2 at 9pm on Monday 29th March and Tuesday 30th March
Law changes for prostitution and lap-dancing
Men seeking paid-for sex on the street will soon risk being arrested on their first offence due to tough new measures to tackle prostitution. And local communities will have greater powers to challenge the number of lap-dancing clubs in their area. Both pieces of legislation will come into force in England, Wales and Northern Ireland via the Policing and Crime Act next month. What impact will the changes have on women sex workers? How effective will the law be at helping women to leave the sex industry? And do these measures go far enough? Jenni is joined by Cari Mitchell from the English Collective of Prostitutes, and Anna Van Heeswijk from Object.
The real Room of One's Own
For the last eight years Sarah Hosking has provided aspiring female writers over 40 with a place to think, get away from it all, and write award-winning books. But currently not enough good candidates are applying to make use of the cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon. Jenni meets Sarah, founder of the Hosking Houses Trust, to ask her what she wants from her writers-in-residence, and what writers gain from the experience. She is also joined by Louise Foxcroft, who completed 'Hot Flushes, Cold Science - a History of the Modern Menopause' whilst staying at the retreat.
'Moral policing' in Mangalore
A year ago a global protest known as the Pink Pants, or Pink Chaddi, campaign was launched following attacks on women in a bar in the southern Indian town of Mangalore. A mob of around 40 men hit, kicked and abused the women in the pub because they said the girls were going against Indian culture. A hindu group known as the army of Ram or Shri Ram Sene said they carried out the attack. The BBC?s Assignment team has just been to Mangalore, and found that the campaign has had little effect. A new kind of moral policing is taking place in which young couples - especially Muslim boys seen out with Hindu girls - are now the target. Tinku Ray reports from Mangalore.
Naomie Harris
The actor Naomie Harris has a lead role in the new BBC thriller 'Blood and Oil', set in the Niger Delta, a beautiful but highly dangerous region of Nigeria. She plays a PR woman who is flown out to help smooth over a kidnapping in the oil industry. But things don?t go to plan. Naomie joins Jenni to talk about her varied career, how she coped with being bullied as a child, and her long-term ambition to play Jane Austen?s Elizabeth Bennet.Blood and Oil will be shown in two parts on BBC2 at 9pm on Monday 29th March and Tuesday 30th March
